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In my (southern) Baptist tradition, preachers don’t generally use the lectionary....

Having lived in the town of Jonathan Edwards and his grandfather Solomon Stoddard for some 20 years, I’ve come to feel a kinship to the 17th- and 18th-century Puritan divines—as if they...

I spent my entire childhood in Vienna, Virginia. From infancy to my eighth year we lived on Hillside Circle....

Reading Barbara Ehrenreich is a bit like listening to a friend of mine whose mind is never ...

Gary Anderson, professor of Old Testament at the University of Notre Dame, has written an astonishing book that, in ways typical of his work, moves from close text...

Paul F. Knitter, the distinguished and blessedly maverick Catholic theologian, has had many lives. And more than one religion....

According to Sr....

The Young Victoria, a chronicle of Queen Victoria’s early days on the English throne, avoids all the historical-epic pitfalls....

I puzzled over this week’s Old Testament passage for a long time. It is hard to see its connection to the other readings....

In a recent post, I highlighted the decision some pro-LGBT pastors have made to get out...

Had there been a vote on the subject in my church youth group, my peers would have decided without much debate that I was the least likely person to become a pastor....

Handel this: Handel’s Messiah is most often sung during the Christmas season, but Handel intended it to be performed during Holy Week. In his lifetime the work was seldom sung in churches but was sung in playhouses, where opera was performed. When the influence of Puritans in 18th-century England led to the banning of operas during Lent, oratorios like the Messiah became a popular alternative form of entertainment (Frank Burch Brown in Interpretation, January).

The Holy Cross Hospital and an affiliated nursing school in Leogane, Haiti, have been approved to receive a $200,000 grant from the Louisville-based Presbyterian Disaster Assistance....

Germany’s senior Protestant bishop, Margot Kässmann, who has criticized her nation’s military strategy in Afghanistan since giving a New Year sermon in which she said that weapons were “clearly not...

Representatives of Middle Eastern Anglican, Lutheran and Reformed churches have voted unanimously in favor of the ordination of women as pastors....

Heated debate. Loss of faith. Religious discord. Questions about death, the universe and our place in it....

Movies about aliens, air travel, cooking and the war in Iraq were among the “spiritually literate” films of 2009, according to the Web site ...

The Bible plays a starring role in The Book of Eli, a postapocalyptic action film starring Denzel Washington that opened in mid-January....

Some surprises started unfolding when a team of Calvin Theological Seminary professors and graduate students recently launched the Post-Refor mation Digital Library....

Andover Newton in the Boston area and Colgate Rochester Crozer in upper New York State—two seminaries with American Baptist ties—have agreed to end merger talks, saying that plans fell short of bei...